Who better to celebrate What Ever Happened To P-Rock? Club’s 5th birthday than Vinnie Caruana‘s I Am The Avalanche? The ex-The Movielife frontman has been involved with some great and influential rock albums over the last decade, and comes with a stella live reputation as goers of the Macbeth in Hoxton found out back in 2012. East London is spoilt for choice tonight as Real Friends and Modern Baseball are tearing up The Old Blue Last just down the road, but a big crowd has arrived early to soak in a full evening of punk rock, craft beer and Friday night mayhem.

After a successful debut for 2013, Liverpool’s Fury Fest is set to return for 2014 in its new home at East Village Arts Club and confirms first wave of bands for the line-up, including I Am The Avalanche, Moose Blood, Carcer City and more. You can find more details below:

New York’s I Am The Avalanche have just announced dates for a full headline tour across the UK in May, with support from Turnover, Major League and Moose Blood throughout. You can check out all dates of the tour along with ticket links below:

Still going as strong as they were in their breakthrough days, Funeral For A Friend are a true treasure to modern British rock/punk music, acting as a strong forefront for the UK’s post-hardcore scene. Now, with new full-length ‘Conduit’ in stores and a headline tour to support it, we headed to the NQ Live venue in Manchester to catch the band once again in a small, intimate venue. Here’s some shots of what went down along with support acts Major League and Such Gold:

British post-hardcore veterans, Funeral For A Friend, have had a bit of a rough time in recent years. With trends constantly moving, they almost didn’t manage survive the scene. With the addition of ex-Rise To Remain drummer Pat Lundy, the band have a new energy about them, and it seems to be paying off.

After a run of various EPs and splits, New Jersey natives Major League have finally put out their debut full-length release, ‘Hard Feelings’. Fans of the band will definitely know what to expect here, it’s an extremely solid, if not a tad bit predictable pop-punk record that might not change the world, but you can definitely imagine it being the soundtrack to many a teen’s summer.

We all know that the mainstream in the last few years have been dominated by manufactured boy bands, passing themselves off as more than mere pop bands by their ability to play instruments, and in some cases not even then. We all know who I’m talking about. They took pop-punk and soiled its good name, and warped it beyond recognition. However, something seems to have kicked in in 2011, are we growing tired of this mainstream bullshit fad? Probably not, but growing in the underground is a movement that is growing stronger and stronger by the day and is even starting to make its push for broader horizons.